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Hurricane watch : battening down the effects of the storm on local crop production

Spencer, Nekeisha; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2015

This study utilizes a panel fixed effects model to explore the economic impact of hurricanes on local crop production in Jamaica using quarterly 1999-2008 micro level data. We find, in general, that hurricanes will have a negative impact on production but not for crops grown below ground. The...

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The agricultural origins of time preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2014

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...

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Got water? : social divisions and access to public goods in rural India

Balasubramaniam, Divya; Chatterjee, Santanu; Mustard, … - 2011

We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social … divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu …

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Legal status and deprivation in India's urban slums : an analysis of two decades of national sample survey data

Nolan, Laura B.; Bloom, David E.; Subbaraman, Ramnath - 2017

In India, 52-98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by …

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Still waters run deep : groundwater contamination and education outcomes in India

Aggarwal, Khushboo; Barua, Rashmi; Vidal-Fernandez, Marian - 2024

We investigate the impact of groundwater contamination on educational outcomes in India. Our study leverages variations …-contaminated regions in India, we find that prolonged exposure to unsafe groundwater is associated with increased school absenteeism, grade …

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Effect of health insurance in India: a randomized controlled trial

Malani, Anup; Holtzman, Phoebe; Imai, Kosuke; Kinnan, … - 2021

We report on a large randomized controlled trial of hospital insurance for above-poverty-line Indian households. Households were assigned to free insurance, sale of insurance, sale plus cash transfer, or control. To estimate spillovers, the fraction of households offered insurance varied across...

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Understanding the effects of siblings on child mortality : evidence from India

Makepeace, Gerald H. (contributor); … - 2006

Given the intrinsically sequential nature of child birth, timing of a child's birth has consequences not only for itself, but also for its older and younger siblings. The paper argues that prior and posterior spacing between consecutive siblings are thus important measures of intensity of...

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Is women's ownership of land a panacea in developing countries? : evidence from land-owning farm households in Malawi

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2014

Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of cash crop cultivation by a household increases with the extent of land owned (or de facto controlled) by males,...

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Child labor and schooling response to changes in coca production in rural Peru

Dammert, Ana C. (contributor) - 2007

Coca eradication and interdiction are the most common policies aimed at reducing the production and distribution of cocaine in the Andes, but little is known about their impact on households. This paper uses the shift in the production of coca leaves from Peru to Colombia in 1995 to analyze the...

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Fertility and the plough

Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - 2011

The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We argue, and provide ethnographic evidence, that the finding is explained by the fact that with plough agriculture, children, like women, are relatively less useful in the field....

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